Yes, as a matter of fact, it does look like fish food. But furikake is actually a seasoning for rice, and it comes in even more varieties than fish food does. And thank goodness for that, because when I made my decision to go mostly vegetarian, it occurred to me that a basic ingredient in furikake is bonito flakes. Enter: yasai fumi furikake. Vegetarian furikake! And, can I tell you? Delicious. Absofrikkinlutely delicious. I’m oddly fond of rice in the first place, but this stuff is like rice-crack. Available at your local Asian grocer, I buy mine from Pacific Ocean Marketplace for $2.99/jar.
I’m heading off to the wilds of semi-rural New Jersey for a few days, so I’m taking this moment to predict that I may not create a Friday post. Then again, I may. Woo, can you handle the suspense?
3 Comments
May 1, 2008 at 1:54 am
“Oh, and, no break, of course, would be complete without a bitofa shuffle, so, for this we’re gonna use some household White Noise, you can get this from your TV, I got mine from Sainsbury’s.”
Probably beats the snot outta Uncle Toby’s Rice Wot You Nuke On High For Two Minutes And Just Eat It stuff…
May 1, 2008 at 11:40 am
If you see someone driving erratically in a rental car looking dazed and confused about the damn jughandles in the vicinity of Parsippany, it’s probably me. I’ll be there on business all next week- what’s your excuse?
May 1, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’ll have to try some. Maybe you can bring this rice to our June meet up bbq and I can try yours before I drive to the ends of the earth to buy it. I’m just saying…since you have to bring a side dish anyway… ;-)